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DIANA AND ENDYMION. 2$
where she was last heard of. The moonbeam, it seems,
asked a saucy boy, who, not knowing what she meant,
put his finger on his nose and said :
" She's gone to Norridge, of course."
The poor little moonbeam took it all seriously,
and brought back that report to me. So I slipped down
on the next moonglade, and went all about asking my
way to Norridge, getting laughed at for my pains for it
;
seems that in those " days Gone to Porridge " meant
the same that gone to Jericho, or toddler's Island, or
Dixie, or any such expression means now :
there was no
place in the world really called Porridge. So I came
home again, and sent my dog down next, and a half-adozen
moonbeams with him. The dog was to find
Diana, and the moonbeams to tell her that if she
would come home, and bring Endymion, I would set
them up at house-keeping, and all should be forgiven.
So she came ;
and they live just over the hill near the
Cheese Mine."
" But there is a place called Norridge pretty near
where I live, when I am at home ; only they spell it
Norwich," said Khoda timidly.
" Oh, yes ;
after my inquiries had made the name
so popular, a good many towns were called Norridge,"
replied the Man in the Moon. " Only, you see, I came
down too soon, before they were built."
" Oh, dear !
oh, niy o h " ! ! groaned the Man